WRITER

Wanda Wasilewska

1905 - 1964

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Wanda Wasilewska (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvanda vaɕiˈlɛfska]), also known by her Russian name Vanda Lvovna Vasilevskaya (Russian: Ва́нда Льво́вна Василе́вская) (21 January 1905 – 29 July 1964), was a Polish and Soviet novelist and journalist and a left-wing political activist. She was a socialist who became a devoted communist. She fled the German attack on Warsaw in September 1939 and took up residence in Soviet-occupied Lviv and eventually in the Soviet Union. She was a founding member of the Union of Polish Patriots and played an important role in the creation of the 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wanda Wasilewska is the 2,238th most popular writer (up from 2,315th in 2019), the 500th most popular biography from Poland (up from 529th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 2,238 out of 7,302. Before her are Rudolf Rocker, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Claude Farrère, Nina Berberova, Pierre Klossowski, and Clive Barker. After her are Meleager of Gadara, Quadratus of Athens, Aspazija, Allen Carr, Jean Bolland, and William Caxton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 116. Before her are Bruno Rossi, Anna May Wong, Louis Harold Gray, Natalia Pavlovna Paley, Maria von Trapp, and Pierre Klossowski. After her are Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, The Boswell Sisters, Edgar Snow, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Paul Ariste, and Charles Lane. Among people deceased in 1964, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 72. Before her are Prince Axel of Denmark, Firmin Lambot, Sergey Biryuzov, Halide Edib Adıvar, Franz Alexander, and Jean Fautrier. After her are Anna Vyrubova, Julius Raab, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Samuil Marshak, Flaminio Bertoni, and Hugo Koblet.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 500 out of 1,694. Before her are Jack Tramiel (1928), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Eduard Strasburger (1844), Jan Tarnowski (1488), Richard Courant (1888), and Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1734). After her are Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905), Wolf Messing (1899), Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), Anna Leszczyńska (1699), Włodzimierz Smolarek (1957), and Paul Wegener (1874).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 46. Before her are Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Julian Tuwim (1894), Lidia Zamenhof (1904), Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), and Georg Heym (1887). After her are Stefania Wilczyńska (1886), Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), Fritz Gerlich (1883), Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914), and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595).

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